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Marquette School Playground Group in Costumes

Date: 07 18 1932
Description: Marquette School children, with their drama teacher Ethel Kaump, in costumes for their play "The Fairy Woods," presented on the banks of the Yahara River.
Photograph

De Pere Bridge

Date: 1932
Description: Elevated view of the bridge over a river. The Nicolet Paper Company is at the end of the bridge on the far shoreline.
Photograph

De Pere Bridge Under Construction

Date: 1932
Description: View of the bridge under construction, with a crane atop the structure. Eight men are standing on scaffolding below the bridge. The Nicolet Paper Company ...
Map or Atlas

Official Highway Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1932
Description: This map includes a distance table, text, and insets maps of, Superior, Ashland, Marinette, Green Bay, Appleton, Manitowoc, Oshkosh, Fond Du Lac, Janesvill...
Photograph

Hydroelectric Plant at Taliesin

Date: 1932
Description: Exterior view of Taliesin and its hydroelectric plant. Caption on photograph reads, "Dam at Frank Lloyd Wright's Bungalow-Taliesin-near Spring Green, Wis."...
Photograph

The Flowage, Mercer Fish Hatchery

Date: 1932
Description: View across water of The Flowage showing the Mercer Fish Hatchery building on the left. Two people are in a boat on the far left, a bridge is in the center...
Photograph

View from Future Site of Hoover Dam

Date: 03 1932
Description: Elevated view looking down from the point where the Hoover Dam is to be built. International trucks used roads built into the mountainside to transport bui...
Photograph

Men with International Trucks at Hoover Dam

Date: 1932
Description: Men stand along a riverbank as International trucks are used to haul loads from the cliffs during the construction of the Hoover Dam. An electric shovel is...
Photograph

International Trucks Constructing Hoover Dam

Date: 03 1932
Description: Men use International trucks to loads from the cliffs during the construction of the Hoover Dam. One of the men is smoking a cigarette. Two shovels are wor...
Photograph

International Trucks at Hoover Dam

Date: 03 1932
Description: Two International trucks drive up a dirt road during the construction of the Hoover Dam.
Photograph

Three-Deck Drilling Platform at Hoover Dam

Date: 1932
Description: Front view of a three-deck drilling platform mounted on an International truck. The device was used in the interior of the tunnels during construction of t...
Photograph

Hoover Dam Site

Date: 1932
Description: Elevated view looking north toward the future site of the Hoover Dam.
Map or Atlas

Map of Superior Wisconsin Showing Main Roads and a Few Points of Interest

Date: 1932
Description: This map of Superior shows many points of interests including camping, fair grounds, docks, tourist attractions, lakes, roads, and waterways.
Map or Atlas

Beaver Dam, Wisconsin

Date: 1932
Description: This map of Beaver Dam shows new boundary lines for wards, existing wards, roads, railroads, and rivers. Roads and Beaver Dam Lake are labeled. There are s...
Map or Atlas

Cities Service Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1932
Description: This map shows automobile routes across Wisconsin and parts of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa. The Mississippi River, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior,...
Postcard

Island on the Baraboo River

Date: 1932
Description: Text on front reads: "Island Baraboo River Reedsburg, Wis." View of a tree and grass covered island on the Baraboo River.
Postcard

The Valley of the "Oconto"

Date: 1932
Description: Text on front reads: "The Valley of the 'Oconto', Stiles, Wis." The shoreline is lined with trees. The Oconto River flows into Green Bay.

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